How to make a table (with sub-diagram on cell) with PlantUML?

[The-Lum]

Hello all,

As the title:

• How to make a table (with sub-diagram on cell) with PlantUML?

💡 Every ideas are welcome.
[All but not creole table (where sub-diagram is very difficult to manage)]

[The-Lum]

In fact, the main question is actually:

• How to easily include sub-diagrams in [creole] table ?

[@arnaudroques: this would be very useful for structuring the plantuml documentation and the help pages]

[arnaudroques]

Maybe we should allow a similar table syntax as in AsciiDoc?

Or we could also copy <table> <tr> <td> syntax from HTML ?

Which one sounds better?
Or we could allow both syntaxes ... :-)

[The-Lum]

As you want.
I don't know what will be the best....

But the requirements are:

• allow sub-diagram
• allow |, ;, } within
• allow multi-line
• allow <code></code>
• why not cell merging/fusing...

in order to solve, for example:

• https://forum.plantuml.net/10521/embedded-code-is-not-parsed-within-table-cells
• ...

Regards.

[The-Lum]

Hello all,

• Here is a big question...

Compare (on a creole context...):

• AsciiDoc

[cols="1,1"]
|===
|Cell in column 1, row 1 with <code>
@startebnf
title Test of EBNF alt
alt = a 
| b
    | c;
@endebnf
</code>
|Cell in column 2, row 1 with result
{{ebnf
title Test of EBNF alt
alt = a 
| b
    | c;
}}
|=== 

• HTML

<table border=2>
  <tr>
    <td>Cell in column 1, row 1 with
    <code>
    @startebnf
    title Test of EBNF alt
    alt = a 
    | b
        | c;
    @endebnf
    </code>
    </td>
    <td>Cell in column 2, row 1 with result
    {{ebnf
    title Test of EBNF alt
    alt = a 
    | b
        | c;
    }}
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

• What are the best?

No idea IMHO...
Regards.